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LNG Custody Transfer Handbook GIIGNL

Year: 2017Language: englishAuthor: GIIGNLGenre: Technical bookEdition: 5thFormat: PDFQuality: eBookPages count: 179Description: This fifth (2017) edition of the GIIGNL LNGCustody Transfer Handbook reflects GIIGNL’sunderstanding of best current practice at thetime of publication.The purpose of this handbook is to serve as areference manual to assist readers tounderstand the procedures and equipmentavailable to and used by the members of GIIGNLto determine the energy quantity of LNGtransferred between LNG ships and LNGterminals. It is neither a standard nor aspecification.

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This handbook is not intended to provide thereader with a detailed LNG ship-shore custodytransfer procedure as such, but sets out thepractical issues and requirements to guide andfacilitate a skilled operator team to work out asuitable procedure for a specific LNG ship-shorecustody transfer application.The fifth version comes as a quick follow-up andupdate of the fourth edition (2015) whichprovided, for the first time, a useful insight inthe relatively new (commercial) opportunitiesresulting from the rapidly changing marketconditions: new technical solutions and differentoperations such as partial (un)loading, reloadingat LNG import terminals, ship-to-ship LNGtransfer and LNG transfer from an onshoreterminal to small scale LNG carriers. More thanpointing at the differences and highlighting thepoints of attention when dealing with these newoperations, this fifth version provides answersand solutions for setting up (slightly) altered ornew custody transfer procedures. As a reminder,it is not specifically intended to work outprocedures for overland LNG custody transferoperations involving LNG trucks, containers ortrains, or for small scale LNG transfer such asbunkering or refueling of ships and trucks. Forthese, kind reference is made to the GIIGNLRetail LNG / LNG as a fuel handbook.